What is going to Happen in Iraq? If you can predict the future it can be said you understand the present. The present is filled with Myth. Not only in Iraq, but all human history is largely Myth. There are the Myths of Jesus and Mohammed and the more recent transient myths of George Bush and the Saudi Royal Family.
History is one lie built upon another and another over centuries. In the end we poor humans have fallen victim to our own lies to the point where we no longer can see. We are blind. That's why nothing changes in human history. Technology changes but people don't. We keep making the same mistakes because we cannot learn from one generation to another. Each generation, instead of passing on it's understanding of itself, its wisdom, passes on its lies and the pain that results from lies.
All human culture is diseased like this. We have long forgotten what we are. We are left with a consensual pretense. We all pretend together and agree that what we imagine together is real. But what we imagine together is crooked and convoluted and we cannot act on it effectively because it's inconsistent, unworkable and simply doesn't make sense. We imagine we are central to the Universe. But everything outside of ourselves that we observe says we are not. We are not special. Everyone, everything "passes away". But we insist we are collectively and individually entitled by a creator who has made us immortal and it seems we are doomed with this fixation of ourselves.
Moving from that ...ponderous bulky idea ...to the more mundane and using this brief moment and possibly insignificant moment in history as an example, let's look at a man who will be relatively obscure and possibly soon forgotten in future Human and Earth history: Saddam Hussein. And though this example may be a poor one and is really nothing special, further exposition of the above would require more skill and more time than I have.
Saddam Hussien, say it over and over again. Saddam gassed his own people. He brutally murdered over 400,000 people and put them in mass graves. He was found hiding in a hole like a coward. Everyone agrees that Saddam was "Evil" and the world is better off without him.
But did he gass his own people? Did he murder 400,000 people and bury them in Mass Graves? Is Al Queda planning another attack against the US? Is a Pope Catholic? Only a mad man would believe otherwise...
Saddam gassed his own people:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1602606.php
Saddam murdered 400,000 and put them in mass graves:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0%2C12956%2C1263901%2C00.html
Saddam found hiding in a hole. Rumsfeld:"Saddam not very brave"
http://www.13wham.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=422B960A-26BA-4891-9E60-21C8818788D4
And more peripherally related items offering perspective...
Saddams torture chambers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2930739.stm
American Torture Chambers
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/
Saddams Hostages
http://www.house.gov/young/press/fs030891.htm
American Hostages
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/040605Y.shtml
Saddam Hussein is a human being. He's going to be put on trial and put to death. He should be seen if at all possible, with a view to what actually transpired in his life, rather than what is passed on as an imagined lie, as a myth.